Capture stuff to your inbox!

As promised at the end of 2016, one of our focused areas in 2017 is to make capturing information into Dynalist easier. Now we’ve made the first step towards it: capture to your inbox!

It’s really simple: set an item or a document as your inbox by selecting “Set as inbox” in the menu. Then, invoke the capture screen with Ctrl+Shift+I (I for “inbox”), type your thought, and hit Enter. Voilà! What you just typed will be sent to your inbox item.

The capture feature is Pro-only, but free users can set an inbox location for future capture features too (e.g. a Dynalist clipper/capture browser extension).

We hope you like it!

Footnote 1: The shortcut for invoke the capture screen is customizable under Keymap – General too.

Was looking in iOS and desktop. I see it’s only on Web version. Look forward to seeing it on iOS as that functionality is something that would allow me to complete MUCH more of my dream workflow on dynalist.

I’m using Vivaldi as my browser and Ctrl+Shft+I is the keyboard shortcut for “Developer Tools”. So when I use it with Dynalist the inbox function works but it also pops open the developer tools on the right hand half of the page. No harm done, but a bit distracting and then you have to close them again.

Hmm, that’s weird. Ctrl+Shift+I is also the shortcut to open Developer Tools on Chrome, but we’ve made sure to disable the default functionality at least inside the Dynalist web app. It’s weird that in Vivaldi the default action wasn’t prevented.

Simply put some people want to jot down ideas really quickly, and if they don’t, the thought might just disappear and you’ll try to remember it. For example, while talking to a coworker, he mentions something that you want to write it down but don’t want to interrupt the conversation. If you spend too much time looking for the right place to write it down in your Dynalist, you might have interrupted the conversation…

That’s just one example, there are other situations that require jotting things down as quick as possible.

I understand that some people don’t have this need, but as you can see in the comment, many do. Is this bothering you in any way? This feature should be pretty much hidden if you don’t use it.

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I can’t seem to get this feature to work. I am using a Mac and I’m viewing Dynalist via Chrome. When I press CTRL + SHIFT + I nothing happens. Help!